Health experts from AIR will present at the AcademyHealth's Annual Research Meeting on June 27 – 29, 2010 at the Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center in Boston, MA. AcademyHealth is a professional community of health services researchers and policy analysts who commit to using the best health research to improve ...
Darrick S. Yee is a senior researcher at AIR with a broad background in policy-related research and methodological expertise in causal inference, multilevel modeling, and educational measurement. At AIR, he has engaged primarily in research involving the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and the High School Longitudinal Study of ...
The Plan, Do, Study, Act Process is central to the improvement of instructional routines. Watch one of the Better Math Teaching Network members in real time and in a real classroom setting introduce the Plan, Do, Study, Act, or PDSA, process.
Kamal Middlebrook is a research associate at AIR. His primary responsibilities include supporting evidence synthesis and measurement equity across education research. Middlebrook also focuses on equity in the workforce, among other systems across health and human development. He has extensive experience in survey research methods, along with other quantitative methods ...
Cindy Van is a senior researcher in the Health Division at AIR. Her primary responsibilities include guiding performance improvement, providing technical leadership on learning system strategies, and developing creative solutions to address client needs. Van leads and contributes to tasks on federally funded projects. She has extensive experience in leading ...
Millions of children across the United States benefit from mentoring every year. Selected by the U.S. Library of Congress, AIR conducted a five-year evaluation of mentoring enhancement demonstration programs funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. The goal was to assess whether strategic enhancements to the roles ...
Martyna Citkowicz is a principal researcher at AIR with expertise in quantitative methodology, particularly in the areas of program evaluation and meta-analysis. Dr. Citkowicz currently serves as the Principal Investigator of two residency program evaluations funded by the Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) Grants Program and is leading several meta-analyses ...
Michael S. Garet is a vice president and institute fellow at AIR. His areas of specialization include teacher development and methodological issues in evaluating the impacts of educational interventions. He is currently co-leading two projects for the Institute of Education Sciences: a study of the impact of multi-tiered systems of ...
Although DCPS has made measurable progress over the past five years in terms of the goals laid out in the former Chancellor’s strategic plan, gains have not been evenly distributed among all student groups or across all of DC’s eight wards. To summarize the extent to which DCPS met its ...
Dominique Bradley is a senior researcher at AIR and deputy director for the Long Beach Network for School Improvement. She serves as the qualitative research lead for evaluations of the Community Schools Initiative, Full Service Community Schools and Sustainable Community Schools for Chicago Public Schools and the research lead and ...